I know this is a bit goofy of me but I was able to get the LED to blink on my new FPGA! One of my teachers showed me a dev board that had several peripherals on it and a Cyclone iv FPGA on ebay. I got a little extra money for Christmas and ordered it from china. With out much thinking about it I was happy to wait till I got the board, and happy when I did. I learned a bit of verilog while I waited. When I got it in the mail I started to look over what all I needed to do to get it going. The only problem was that there was no documentation that came with it.
I had bought an arduino clone from china a while back but it came with a disc that had all the basic stuff on it and I guess I had thought this one would be much the same. I was wrong in assuming that one. After a bit of searching I did find a site that had all the specs in a zip folder, but when I downloaded it and tried to unzip it apparently winzip aint free no more! I am a full time student with a family and house etc... which means I work full time and so I don't have a lot of extra money laying around. I was able to find a free way to open the .rar file and now I had access to the pinout! Now to plug that into a verilog program. I found a youtube video on how to use quartus and I loaded the program. After a bit of playing around with it I finally go it to work!
I'm just kind of excited and this is about the only place I can share this sort of thing with others who might actually understand what this kind of thing means to someone just getting started.
I had bought an arduino clone from china a while back but it came with a disc that had all the basic stuff on it and I guess I had thought this one would be much the same. I was wrong in assuming that one. After a bit of searching I did find a site that had all the specs in a zip folder, but when I downloaded it and tried to unzip it apparently winzip aint free no more! I am a full time student with a family and house etc... which means I work full time and so I don't have a lot of extra money laying around. I was able to find a free way to open the .rar file and now I had access to the pinout! Now to plug that into a verilog program. I found a youtube video on how to use quartus and I loaded the program. After a bit of playing around with it I finally go it to work!
I'm just kind of excited and this is about the only place I can share this sort of thing with others who might actually understand what this kind of thing means to someone just getting started.